Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.

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• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

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• I got a big mouth.

  

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• More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

  

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• Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Business
  • Kid
  • Orgies